Archery Club - Established 1948
Archery is where a peculiar collection of academic disciplines collide on a wet, windy field in Central Scotland while everyone eats their Captain Sausage supplied snack: engineering in building the bow, economics in buying...
aka Feeding the 5000 about 70 Ignore the geometric exactitude of setting up the field, the military precision of moving bosses between distances, administering applications, working out the target list, totalling up the scores,...
There are injuries in archery that earn respect. Torn shoulders. Sore backs. String slap that resembles a domestic dispute with a nettle. Today's injury, however, is more on the bizarre side. It announces itself...
On the 5th of July, Glasgow Archers ran our first record‑status shoot since 2019. In the intervening years, COVID, field drama, and the usual twists of club life conspired to keep us off the...
Ever turned up to a competition and thought, "This field looks really organised"? But the funny thing is, bosses don't magically wander into position. Distances don't mark themselves. Someone has to build the entire...
Archers often find themselves confronting one of philosophy's older questions without ever realising it. Philosophers call it "The Ship of Theseus". Most British readers of a certain age know it as "Trigger's broom". The...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how we had bid for and been successful in getting a grant of just over £5,000 from the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games Festival. Since then we’ve had to start...
When you shoot a bow, you only touch it in two places: Your hook on the string, and the handle on the riser. We’ve talked about grips before — whole articles, diagrams, the usual...
Congratulations — you’ve survived the beginners course. You’ve got your certificate, you know etiquette, you can now chant the safety rules like they were handed down on stone tablets by a very tired Moses....
(Or: “Why does the target suddenly shrink like it’s been left in a hot wash?”) Five points if you said 20 metres. Minus ten if you said it smugly. And if you’re the sort...
Archers spend an extraordinary amount of time thinking about the front end of the shot. The kit, the form, the checklist, the ritual, the “don’t pluck, don’t collapse, don’t sneeze” internal monologue. We obsess...
One entire Sunday morning recently we had a film crew with us from the Commonwealth Games. They found Finlay to have presence, star quality and charisma ... at least his beard did. Finlay not...
We do our best to be a practical guide for archers, beginners, and anyone who’s ever watched an arrow do something it definitely wasn’t supposed to. However, sometimes a subject, even though significant, isn't...
As you are no doubt aware, Glasgow is hosting the Commonwealth Games this summer. It is a truncated version, featuring only 10 sports, one of which is not archery. So we thought - why...
Hope I’ve given it long enough to talk about this now, but for anyone still traumatised by the outcome of this year’s Glasgow League, look away now … GA takes part in the Glasgow...
As Conducted by the Glasgow Archers Congregation of Mild Chaos Order of Service Opening Remarks Reading from the Book of Easton The Life and Death of X10 #5 Reflections from the Shooting Line Hymn:...
At some point in every recurve archer’s life, usually around the moment they first try 70 metres, they discover that their sight mark has opinions. Strong ones. One week it sits politely in the...
It's April. You're standing in a field somewhere in central Scotland. The wind is doing that particular Scottish thing where it can't decide if it wants to come from the north or the east,...
Archery kit is, in theory, pretty resilient. It has to be, given we insist on bending it, unbending it, and rattling it 200 times a night like it owes us money. Every shot loads...
A few weeks ago we had an article on the big indoor competition - Las Vegas 2026. We noted the fact that last year there was, over the weekend, $30,000 dollars of damage done...
